Perspective in July 5 NEJM by Torree McGowan, MD, St. Charles Medical Group
“I remember the day I first met you. It was a quiet Sunday, early in the morning. I heard a commotion out by the check-in desk, and your mom’s scream: “My baby’s not breathing!†The first time I saw you was in your mom’s arms. Heartbreakingly, you weren’t snuggled like a baby should be, or even limp. Your tiny body was twitching, seizing. The cold clinical term “decorticate posturing†that flashed in the physician part of my brain seemed too rigid to be applied to your chubby toddler arms. …
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